dazerl@lemmy.world to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 4 months agoAlabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.cdn.imgchest.comvideomessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
arrow-up17arrow-down1videoAlabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.cdn.imgchest.comdazerl@lemmy.world to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareMrSulu@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoSlavery never went away. It’s just been rebranded, repackaged and sanitized.
minus-squaredeHaga@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoNot American, but isn’t that what the 13th amendment did? Make slave labour legal for prisons?
minus-squareNauticalNoodle@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agothe crazy thing about this story (aside from the slavery) is that the voters of Alabama voted to outlaw that exception at the state level but ever since then, their governor has overidden that effort.
Slavery never went away. It’s just been rebranded, repackaged and sanitized.
Not American, but isn’t that what the 13th amendment did? Make slave labour legal for prisons?
the crazy thing about this story (aside from the slavery) is that the voters of Alabama voted to outlaw that exception at the state level but ever since then, their governor has overidden that effort.